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in reply to Editing remote *nix files from Windows?

You can also write a Perl script that will run on the Linux system. Then you can use Expect.pm to login to that client and execute the Perl script on the Linux system.

Or you login with Expect and just run the command line tools that you mentioned, such as cat, echo, touch, ...

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Re^2: Editing remote *nix files from Windows?
by salva (Canon) on Dec 16, 2009 at 09:43 UTC
    Note that under Windows Expect only works when used inside the Cygwin port of Perl.